Allocation of funds to the AC Work Programme: Lessons learnt and recommendations to improve the process

FAVERO, M, W PAPWORTHSKER, B BAKER, R GALES, R PHILLIPS

Mar del Plata

Encuentro; V Meeting of the Advisory Committee; 2010

Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

During AC4 it was agreed that the allocation of funds for the 2009 Work Programme would be undertaken in consultation with the Parties in a manner to be resolved intersessionally due to there not being an Advisory Committee Meeting during that year (see paragraph 15.2.1 of AC4 report). During MoP3 a procedure for allocating funding for the AC Work Programme was discussed and adopted (MoP3 Doc 13 rev 3). The actual process followed in 2009 is described in a separate document (see AC5 Inf 06). No significant changes are proposed to the process adopted at MoP3however Parties recommended that experience with implementing the procedure should be used to improve it in future. Following this recommendation, the present document is introduced to the Advisory Committee with the purpose of (1) identifying difficulties and lessons learnt along the process, and (2) proposing improvements to facilitate implementation of the process. Parties also recommended that the outcomes of each project be reviewed as part of the assessment of implementation of the Agreement. To that end a separate document is presented to the Advisory Committee compiling the outcomes of projects supported during 2008 (refer to AC5 Inf 1).